vair68robert
Responses from vair68robert
| What is the most dramatic way of increasing a speaker's Bass and Low mid? dumbeatMy experience with 2 way speakers ( rear ported ) showed me that moving the speakers closer to the walls create bass bloat ,so stay at least 2 feet from the front wall .Spikes are good as others have suggested , but the thing that made th... | |
| Tavish Design Adagio Owners gcg After a few weeks of breaking in with the original tubes I was very pleased with the bass extension .It was the clarity and linearity that impressed me the most .I use a MM cartridge going through a passive preamp .Rob | |
| Tavish Design Adagio Owners With the original tubes after the break in period they sounded good ,If you want to improve your sound try replacing them with NEW Tung-Sol gold pin cryo'd or not .I replaced the 12AU7A Gold Lion with a NOS Raytheon from the 60's ,wow ( now that i... | |
| Tavish Design Adagio Owners Update Since there were 81 views a few must be Adagio owners .I can't say how much fun tube rolling with this preamp is .A week ago I received a NOS 1959 RCA 5751 triple mica black plate tube and started rolling between it , a 1959 GE 12ax7 long p... | |
| Thiel Owners pwhinsonI had purchased only the spikes and not the outrigger support standsfrom Coherent Source ,I used the new spikes with the original locking nuts .Now the spikes penetrate the carpetThe outrigger stands look great but cost to much for me .Rob | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? This has tread has sure created some Nastiness ,over opinions about the cost of tonearms over $1000.00being a " rip-off " .I have stated that I don't think they are ,one might argue that the Profit Margins on higher end tonearms( equipment ) are... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? madavid0"Now let's take two tonearms, the Audiomods V and the Durand Kairos. The price difference is very large, easily around 500-600%. Now, from an audio perofmance perspective is there a meaningful difference? How much better does the Kairos so... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? madavidONo they are not . Now lets use equipment prices as examples ,an amp can cost $2,000 or $200,000 a 100x increase .speakers can be the same 100x increase but a $1,000 tonearm or the top of the line Graham Engineering for $15,000 is only a ... | |
| Thiel Owners Buggy for me today ever since it was brought up this morning ,different each time .It opens and when I try to go to last page " sorry ", then refresh ,next time it won't open at all - then refresh , next time no problem !next time it opens but no ... | |
| Thiel Owners I just refreshed the page and wa la it appears .Rob | |
| Can you live with your current speaker until you die? shkong78You have had a lot of experience over the years ,so which speaker manufacture tickled your fancy at the time ?Have you ever purchased the same manufacture years later I am a CS2.7 Thiel speaker owner and am a follower of theThiel speaker f... | |
| Thiel Owners oblgnyIn my attempt to advise or help another music lover Thiel ownerwho is thinking about using a passive pre-amp I have offended you , I truly apologize , that was defiantly not my intention .Please forgive me.Mr. ThielThank you for the addition... | |
| Power conditioner or outlet? easola01Yes surprisingly we heard an improvement in sound quality when adding PS audio noise harvesters to a system with a Furman power conditioner, 2 minimum ,I really liked when when we got up to # 5 ( I thinking of a few more )I do not have a p... | |
| Power conditioner or outlet? easola01Like every tread that asked for others experience you'll receiveevery side of a rubik's cube full of opinions .So here is my side and my opinion , until recently most power conditioners could not handle the high current of power amps soplu... | |
| Thiel Owners dsper I'd like to thank you for your response about your experience with tubes .You got me thinking about trying older tubes , so after finding and reading about different EF86s I decided to try a pair of 1972 NOS Tesla EF806s , the performance v... |